{"product_id":"9780375407925","title":"The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game","description":"\u003cb\u003eThree classic crime novels by a master of the macabre  appear here together in hardcover for the first time. SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING ANDREW SCOTT, JOHNNY FLYNN, AND DAKOTA FANNING.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Suave, agreeable, and completely  amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not  even murder--to accomplish his goals.  In achieving for himself the opulent life  that he was denied as a child, Ripley shows himself to be a master of illusion and  manipulation and a disturbingly sympathetic combination of genius and psychopath.   As Highsmith navigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley's deadly and sinister games,  she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into the mind of a man utterly  indifferent to evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Talented Mr. Ripley - ONE OF \u003ci\u003eTIME MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn a chilling literary hall of mirrors,  Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley.  Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James  novel, Ripley is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back  to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He  wants to be like him--exactly like him.  Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral, Ripley  stops at nothing--certainly not only one murder--to accomplish his goal.  Turning  the mystery form inside out, Highsmith shows the terrifying abilities afforded to  a man unhindered by the concept of evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRipley Under Ground\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn this harrowing illumination  of the psychotic mind, the enviable Tom Ripley has a lovely house in the French countryside,  a beautiful and very rich wife, and an art collection worthy of a connoisseur. But  such a gracious life has not come easily. One inopportune inquiry, one inconvenient  friend, and Ripley's world will come tumbling down--unless he takes decisive steps.  In a mesmerizing novel that coolly subverts all traditional notions of literary justice,  Ripley enthralls us even as we watch him perform acts of pure and unspeakable evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRipley's Game\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eConnoisseur of art, harpsichord aficionado, gardener extraordinaire,  and genius of improvisational murder, the inimitable Tom Ripley finds his complacency  shaken when he is scorned at a posh gala. While an ordinary psychopath might repay  the insult with some mild act of retribution, what Ripley has in mind is far more  subtle, and infinitely more sinister. A social slight doesn't warrant murder of course--just a chain of events that may lead to it.","brand":"Patricia Highsmith","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Hardback  |  1999-10-12","offer_id":45142054633727,"sku":"9780375407925","price":48.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_14291d75-d048-46fb-b695-9c370b68440d.jpg?v=1712594654","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780375407925","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}